The recent defeat of gun control legislation in the U.S. Senate is just the latest round in cultural wars that attempted to reinterpret the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment, according to the president of the National Rifle Association.
It won't be the last, David Keene told a packed room of NRA supporters at the Iowa Capitol Thursday.
"We've managed to stave off the current threat in Congress," Keene said at a Polk County Republican Party sack lunch fundraiser. "But the war has not ended. The enemy has gone behind a hill to regroup."
Read the article: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
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